diff --git a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
index 80705dbd..f97230ff 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/crawler.ts
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ export class WebCrawler {
     return linkDomain === baseDomain;
   }
 
-  private isFile(url: string): boolean {
+  public isFile(url: string): boolean {
     const fileExtensions = [
       ".png",
       ".jpg",
diff --git a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/sitemap.ts b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/sitemap.ts
index c9368f41..460aeca6 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/sitemap.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/sitemap.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import axios from "axios";
 import { axiosTimeout } from "../../lib/timeout";
 import { parseStringPromise } from "xml2js";
 import { scrapWithFireEngine } from "./scrapers/fireEngine";
+import { WebCrawler } from "./crawler";
 
 export async function getLinksFromSitemap(
   {
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ export async function getLinksFromSitemap(
       }
     } else if (root && root.url) {
       for (const url of root.url) {
-        if (url.loc && url.loc.length > 0) {
+        if (url.loc && url.loc.length > 0 && !WebCrawler.prototype.isFile(url.loc[0])) {
           allUrls.push(url.loc[0]);
         }
       }